Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA
CONTACT:
Lisa Freed
561-297-3022,
lfreed@fau.edu
FAU Presents Lecture by Former Death Row Inmate Kirk Bloodsworth
WHAT:
Florida Atlantic University’s School of Criminology and
Criminal
Justice in the College of Architecture, Urban and Public
Affairs,
and the FAU student chapter of the American Criminal
Justice
Association (ACJA) will host “The Justice Project:
Exonerating
the Innocent through DNA,” a lecture by Kirk
Bloodsworth,
former death row inmate.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE:
FAU Boca Raton campus
Christine
E. Lynn College of Nursing
Auditorium
777
Glades Road, Boca Raton
COST:
A $15
donation to the School of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, which will go
toward sponsoring similar events and
activities, is requested for non-FAU students; free for FAU
students, faculty and staff.
CONTACT: For
information, contact Professor Richard Mangan at
561-297-2878
or
rmangan@fau.edu, or visit
www.thejusticeproject.org/profiles/bloodsworth/kirks-story/.
Kirk Bloodsworth was the first death row inmate to be exonerated based on DNA testing. An honorably-discharged U.S. Marine with no criminal record, Bloodsworth was convicted and sentenced to death in Maryland in 1985 for the rape and murder of 9-year-old Dawn Hamilton. He spent nearly nine years in prison before DNA testing proved his innocence in 1993. As a program officer for The Justice Project, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting injustice and creating a more humane and just world, Bloodsworth currently travels the country to speak about his ordeal. His story also is chronicled in Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA, written by author Tim Junkin.
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